skunk
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Santa Rosa is home to six endemic plants, as well as the island spotted skunk and rare birds, Cohen said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Field said the early days of melding the skunk works team with Ford’s ranks played like the sitcom “Silicon Valley,” in which a group of awkward techies navigates venture capitalism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
You couldn’t turn on your television without seeing this woman pop up somewhere, sporting a black-and-white skunk wig, preaching her freak-forward gospel.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2025
Like an urban squirrel or skunk, you are, alarmingly often, in danger of having your body shattered by a two-ton machine hurtling through space at 70 miles per hour.
From Slate ● May 25, 2024
They looked so forlorn that I picked them up and carried them in my cap rather than leaving them for some passing skunk.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
They must be hungry—twice they catch skunks, and a sealed house with a skunk inside, loaded or unloaded, is more than this viewer wanted to contemplate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Prehistoric elephants, saber-toothed cats, jaguars, llamas, peccaries, deer, skunks and bears streamed from North America to South.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
In the years after their seminal roadkill surveys, the Stoners continued to tally flattened fauna, from snakes in Florida to skunks in New York.
From Slate ● May 25, 2024
White marigolds and green onions are planted to help deter the skunks, raccoons and squirrels that like to pull out her dahlias.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2024
“Why, Grandpa, how in the world am I going to do that? I don’t know anything about catching monkeys. I’ve caught coons and possums and skunks and everything else, but not monkeys.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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